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Writing on the wall: Will trade three blind crabs for two with no teeth.

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
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Edward Paul Abbey
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One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role and place in the community. I never felt that living in a city - as I once did for a couple of years.
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How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven was the Great Emancipator.
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Death is every man's final critic. To die well you must live bravely.
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This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.
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You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
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Chastity is more a state of mind than of anatomy.
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I once sat on the rim of a mesa above the Rio Grande for three days and nights, trying to have a vision. I got hungry and saw God in the form of a beef pie.
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It may be true that there are no atheists in foxholes. But you don't find many Christians there, either. Or, about as many of one as the other.
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Government: If you refuse to pay unjust taxes, your property will be confiscated. If you attempt to defend your property, you will be arrested. If you resist arrest, you will be clubbed. If you defend yourself against clubbing, you will be shot dead. These procedures are known as the Rule of Law.
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Is there a God? Who knows? Is there an angry unicorn on the dark side of the moon?
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A good writer must have more than vin rosé in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.
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Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.
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Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
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Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind.
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The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents.
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Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear-the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty where there are no hearts to break....I sometimes choose to think, no doubt perversely, that man is a dream, thought an illusion, and only rock is real. Rock and sun.
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Are people more important than the grizzly bear? Only from the point of view of some people.
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There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.
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Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve.
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If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the natural and isolate himself within a synthetic prison of his own making.
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